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Chess
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TV series · 1 season
A young chess player in the World dreams of becoming a world champion. However, at the very first championship, she is disqualified for cheating by her idol, Grandmaster Garov. Mira learns from her mother that the reason for her disqualification lies much deeper than it seems: Garov is her biological father, who wants nothing to do with her. The unrecognized daughter of a world-famous grandmaster joins the fight for the title of world champion in order to defend her honor both as an athlete and as a daughter.
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We might bicker on the meaning of "starting", but Mikhail Chigorin is definitely the most famous example. He was taught the moves at age 16 by a school teacher but in no way pursued the game until well into his twenties. He would then go on to compete at the highest level, including for the world championship.
While he's the most famous example, many famous older masters also started quite late. And I think one big difference was culture. There's a really great film about chess from 1925 (!!) here [1]. The tournament footage there is real btw - it was the Moscow tournament of 1925, and it even has a cameo by Capablanca!
The image of chess, and chess players, was quite different in the past. It was very much an adult's game. Now a days it has quite a different stereotype, and I think this impacts people's decisions on whether or not to seriously pursue it, with consequent impact on overall outcomes. Because in chess one of the biggest difficulties is when you hit your first serious plateau, which happens to everybody - it even happened to Magnus where his rating only declined for more than a year. If you lose confidence or start working poorly, that plateau will be where your improvement ends. Self belief and confidence is extremely important to keep improving.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN6m711ddZk